The day after a House ethics panel admonished Rep. Charlie Rangel (D., N.Y.) for improperly accepting gifts, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the senior Democrat from calls that he be stripped of his gavel as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Pelosi said Rangel “did not violate the rules of the House,” and that the ethics committee “did not take action against him” yet, ABC News’s Rick Klein reports. The ethics panel said it was uncertain whether Rangel himself knew the trips were improper, but found that members of Rangel’s staff did know, and that Rangel had a responsibility...